Compound tool.



No. 634,336. Patnted Dot. 3, I899.

w. mam-zen. COMPOUND TOOL.

(Application filed Tune 10, 1897. Renewed Aug. 17, 1899.)

(No Modal.)

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICEa WILLIAM N. GREER, OF WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO P. J. COOK, OF GREELEY, NEBRASKA.

COMPOUND TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of. Letters Patent N 0. 634,336, dated October 3, 1899.

Application filed June 10, 1897. Renewed August 17,1899. Serial No. 727,539. (No model.)

all wlwm it y COW/06W hook which is very convenient for cleaning Be it known that I, WILLIAM N. GREER, a horses hoofs and other purposes. The heel citizen of the United States, residing at VVaterof said hook is provided with the longitudinal town, in the county of Oodington and State of slot 9, in which is journaled an edged wheel 5 South Dakota, have invented certain new and 10 on the transverse rivet 12, the said wheel useful Improvements in Compound Tools; being an effective glass-cutter. The oppoand I do hereby declare the following to be a sitely-disposed hook 4 is bifurcated to form full, clear, and exact description of the invena tack and nail claw, and between the intetion, such as will enable others skilled in the gral parallel arms 6 of this member is piv- 10 art to which it appertains to make and use oted the member 13 on the transverse rivet the same. 14, the said member constituting an integral M y invention has relation to improvements corkscrew and bicycle spoke-Wrench, and in compound tools, and particularly to that when either tool is in use it is held at a right class which may be conveniently carried in angle to the arms 6 in the transverse grooves r 5 the pocket; and the object is to provide a 15 on the inner faces of said arms.

simple, convenient, and useful device of this 16 represents integrallugs on the inner face nature. of the arms 6, and said lugs are adapted to To this end the novelty consists in the conlimit the outward movement of said arms and struction, combination, and arrangement of to hold them firmly in operative position.

20 the several parts of the same, as will be here- Between the lugs 3 and on opposite sides of inafter more fully described, and particularly the shank 1 are pivoted the knife-blade 17 pointed out in the claims. and the punch 18,'the said blade sheathing In the accompanying drawings the same in the slotted shank 1 and in the arms of the reference characters indicate the same parts member 4:.

25 of the invention. The punch 18 is crescent-shaped in cross- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my imsection at the heel and tapers to a sharp point, proved compound tool open. Fig. 2is asimilar its edges being sharpened so that a half-turn view of the tool closedj to the right or left after it is inserted in My invention embodiesin one compactimleather or similar material will result in a o plement a screw-driver, corkscrew, spokeclean-cut circular orifice.

wrench, a hook for cleaning horses hoofs, a A V-shaped spring 19 of the construction tool for perforating leather, a penknife, glasscommonly used in pocket-knives (shown in cutter, and a tack or nailclaw. dotted lines, Fig. 2) is employed to secure 1 represents an approximately rectangular the blade and punch in an open or closed po- 3 5 slotted shank shaped at one end to form the sition, and the said spring is secured in the screw-driver 2 and provided at its opposite slotted shank 1 by the rivets 20. end with the integral right-angular lugs 3. It will be noticed that the slotted shank 1 etand 5are oppositely-disposed hook-shaped is rounded at 21 to conform to the groove in members integral with the free ends of the the punch, so that when the said punch is 40 parallel arms 6, and the opposite ends of said clasped shut it fits snugly thereon, and its arms are pivoted on the outer faces of the cutting edges are thus effectually protected. lugs 3 by the transverse rivets 7 and together Ilavin g thus fully described my invention, when opened back to back, form a convenient what I claim as new and useful, and desire to and powerful handle for the screw-driver secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 5 45 and when closed are a casing for the entire is combination, the inner face of the member 4 1. A compound tool, comprising a slotted closing frictionally tight against the outer shank 1 having a convex face 21, a concavoface of the member 5, the recess 8 being proconvex punch pivoted in said shank, the convided to receive the claw ends and prevent cave face of said punch adapted to close down I00 50 same from abrading the pocket. upon the convex face of said shank, a bifur- The member 5 constitutes a bill-shaped cated hook 4 having integral parallel arms 6,

the free ends of said arms pivoted to said shank and adapted to close down over said punch, substantially as shown and described.

2. A compound tool, comprising a slotted. shank 1 having a convex face 21, a coneavoconvex punch pivoted in said shank, the concave face of said punch adapted to close down upon the convex face of said shank, a bifurcated hook 1: having integral parallel arms 6, the free ends of said arms pivoted to said shank and adapted to close down over said punch, a hook member 5 pivoted to said slotted shank by means of integral parallel arms, the inner face of the member 4 adapted to elosefrictionally tight upon the outer face of the member 5, substai'itially as described and set forth.

3. A compound tool, comprising the slotted shank 1, the integral screw-driver 2 on one end thereof, and on the opposite end the integral right-angular lugs 3, a hook 5 for cleaning horses hoofs, an edged Wheel for cutting glass journaled in the heel of said hook, a second oppositely-disposed hook 4, bifurcated to adapt it for use as a tack-claw, both hooks having integral parallel arms (5, the free ends of which are pivoted to the outer faces of the lugs 3, an integral corkscrew and spokewreneh pivoted between the arms of said hook 4: and held in operative position by the transverse grooves 15, integral lugs 16 on the inner faces of said arms near the pivotal ends thereof and adapted to limit their outward movement, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

\VILLTAM N. GREER. \Vitn esses:

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